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Campus Maps (http://www.getcampusmaps.com http://www.getcampusmaps.com) is in this exact space and is facing a few problems with scaling: Connecting with new s
by Terpaholic 14y ago
Campus Maps (http://www.getcampusmaps.com http://www.getcampusmaps.com) is in this exact space and is facing a few problems with scaling:
Connecting with new students is hard:
The ones who hear about the app already have friends to ask questions, and the ones who don't hear about it are the ones you want to reach.
Narrow the value-proposition for them:
so that they see it and say "Ah, I want that!", I feel you may be offering too many services to begin with.
Hard to gain traction with college students if you are not one of them:
I am lucky to be in my senior year, but marketing it after graduation is going to be immensely harder. Are you a college student?
Make sure that the app is designed to scale from the start and that it won't kill you to add another school and have it flop there:
I just expanded to UVA, my first new school. It generated a little bit of verbal buzz, but my downloads were almost untouched. In order to add it, I had to rewrite my app from the ground up because I didn't imagine scaling it past my school, UMD. Adding new schools now is a snap that everything is designed for expansion.
Good luck and feel free to reach out!